1) ANBAHNUNG
Sights, Sites and Sides to the Railway
This project is a reminiscence on the railway as a form of transport that once
»united peoples« in this region. The participants will be introduced
to the bitter-sweet delights of the landscape and to a few of the less well-known
sides to the history of the region. Special attention will be paid to the culture
of the railway employees and to the history of working people.
ANBAHNUNG is set up as a twelve-hour »open-air exhibition«: A meandering
rail journey evolves like a walk-through sculpture, beside which the
landscape unfolds like a film. Individual »Frames« or »Stills«
have specific »Markings« to make them recognisable. Buildings or
outdoor locations which are significant for their cultural and historical »relations
and connections« in the region are given particular prominence. A film
director is the tour leader, and the group itself part of the atmosphere.
Locations: Feistritz, Rosenbach, Jesenice, Fusine; Tarvisio
Date: April 2002
2) DECAY & READYMADE Beauty in Ugliness
Photographic installations Media Project
Three photographic artists will be commissioned to artistically portray industrial
architecture in Jesenice, Cave del Predil and Feistritz - all of which is decaying
rapidly - by means of large posters or projections, each to be displayed in
in a public area in the particular location. Attention should thereby be drawn
and directed to their aesthetic quality as »Readymades« and to the
»dignity« of the cultural history of these seemingly ugly ruins.
Artists from Slovenia, Italy and Austria will participate.
Locations: Feistritz, Jesenice, Cave del Predil
Date: July 2002
3) MUSEUM MUSEO MUZEJ Disruption
Artistic Interventions in the Museums
The MUSEUM MUSEO MUZEJ project aims to help the regional museums in Jesenice,
Cave del Predil and Feistritz to receive greater attention from their localities
by means of temporary »subversive« measures within the museum walls.
Artists from a wide range of disciplines (pictorial art, literature, photography,
architecture) will be invited to extend or to partially distort the existing
collections with various »fakes« or thematically »inappropriate«
objects or unusual interior installations.
Locations: Feistritz, Jesenice, Cave del Predil
Date: August 2002
4) KEINE KUNST NICHT Installation-Art on Open Spaces
Exhibition Project
Artists from the three countries will enter into a dialogue with a variety of
representatives of everyday culture. The numerous »informal« works
of art and other aesthetically challenging products of daily culture that are
to be found throughout Feistritz, Jesenice and Cave del Predil will be contrasted
and confronted with installations and »implantations« by contemporary
artists. The project is to be understood both as a training for artistic awareness
and perception and as a forum for exposure to experimental forms of expression
within art and an extended concept of art.
Locations: Feistritz, Jesenice, Cave del Predil
Date: September/October 2002
5) SCHÖN SPRECHEN | LEPO GOVORITI | PARLI BENE
Media Project
Posters and slogans designed by artists will confront the inhabitants of Feistritz,
Jesenice and Cave del Predil with fragments from the poetry of the minority
languages of the other neighbouring countries (Feistritz: Serbian & Furlan;
Jesenice: German & Italian; Cave del Predil: Slovenian & Romano).
The criterion for the selection of the poems will be that they include the concepts
of beautiful or beauty. These will be highlighted in the texts and are the only
words that will be translated (in a footnote) into the appropriate national
language.
Locations: Feistritz, Jesenice, Cave del Predil
Date: November 2002
6) Watershed (Art in Flow)
Kinetic Action Art
The focus of this project will be on water as a supplier of energy and as a
source of shape and form, in which art goes downstream literally: Three
fe- and male artists have been asked to create floating objects or »space
Installations« on the topic of water. The main materials should be objects
that have been washed up on the banks of the Save, the Rio del Lago or the Feistritzbach.
The objects will then be »launched« in separate events on each of
the rivers in Feistritz, Jesenice and Cave del Predil to then float downstream,
passing the local audiences and constantly changing their shape and form.
Locations: Feistritz, Jesenice, Cave del Predil
Date: March 2003
III. Documentation
Schöne Öde / Bella Brulla / Lepa Pust (Wasted Beauty) will be
permanently accompanied by a web site on the Internet and, on its conclusion,
documented in a catalogue.
IV. Project Partners
Austria: K&K Kulturzentrum St. Johann/Øentjanæ
Slovenia: Muzej Jesenice
Italy: Unione dei circoli culturali Sloveni in Italia Zveza slovenskih
kulturnih druøtev